Emory or Tulane

AnneStep
Tue, 21 Apr 2015 14:22:33 +0000

AnneStep
Today at 10:20 am in Tulane University
My son has been accepted at both schools and is having a very hard time choosing which to attend. He received the Presidential Scholarship (32k) from Tulane and only a small amount of financial aid from Emory. We are in Ga so so he won’t have travel costs to and from Emory, but they are still the more expensive option. He wants to major in biology and perhaps public health. He has done research during high school and is pretty set that he wants to go to grad school, get a doctorate, and have a career in research.

We attended Tulane’s Top Scholars weekend and were very impressed. Emory’s open house was not as useful. He feels that we would get good mentoring at Tulane, but that maybe there are more research opportunities at Emory with the med school and Yerkes being right on campus. Also Emory seems to have a bigger name, but we don’t know how important that is to getting into grad school and is it worth the price. Also Emory seems to be intensely pre-med and maybe Tulane a little more relaxed. Any advice would be greatly appreciated! Thx!